Giants of the North

GiantsOfTheNorth

A dark power is sweeping across the land.
Our lone hero hears of a strange disturbance in the forests, and travels north to lend aid.
What he finds there is more than he can comprehend, but is it all as it seems?

A tale of adventure, magic and giants, told in verse.

Internet’s Closed

There’s no more room! Diminishing returns with each upload. The discs are full, the drives implode. Cables wear and coolant leaks, with every second, many weeks or months of film that oft repeats. New photos of the same old views – same dish, same flower, same reviews. Opinions shared, and shared again, formed long before, […]

The Spine

Through haze of open war and fallen worlds, Persistent as the dreads of private past, Hangs a blinking light. Shrouded, demanding to be seen. A protrusion, cold, dead, geometric, Thrust from the light In defiance of death and In spite of the laws of life long ago etched and written – long ago burned and […]

Art

I wonder, as another book is filled,The cost of secrets hidden from my life –As many try the brush, the pen or knife,Yet inconsistent come the answers willed.

Elephant’s Tear

On edge of dry creek’s inlet,A shadow plods on by –The rider but a silhouetteagainst an orange sky. His garments were in fading,With tassels ready frayed,Though none of this could quite be seenamidst the coming shade. For, blooming in the distance,Was man and mount’s friend, one.The only other living soul –They called the setting sun. […]

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